As a Springs native I don't think Zonker or his plants would thrive in "The City of Wide Streets and Narrow Minds."

I wonder if this incident was one of the inspirations for last week's story arc. After this prime example of video-bombing, I'm sure that a number of aides were told to comb their hair, put down the smart phones, stay focused and in control.

Zonker would do a lot better as "Ben Boulder."

Colorado Springs is so wrong for Z. Please allow me to offer New Uraniborg, home to the Keplerian Institution, which would be honored to have Zonker as its Horticulturist in Residence.

Zonk will not be happy as "Kevin Colorado Springs." I suggest "Martin Manitou Springs" as a little better match.

Far out!

John! I last saw him in Ha Noi, 1994, weeks after Viet Nam granted Americans with visas permission to travel freely there. He played the Soviet Youth Friendship Palace, biggest venue in town, with surely not enough seats to make his nut. We were doing the same thing, opening up our countries at personal expense. I would not have been caught dead at a John Denver show under any other circumstance. I married the Foreign Business School student who invited me to that concert. We're divorced, John is dead, and his music that night remains a lovely memory.

All right! Some of us in the Springs will welcome the Zonk man, as well as his industry -- we need jobs not funded by the Defense Department or the VA.

Please send Zonk, I mean Kevin, to Colorado Springs! GBT could shred this place.

How sweet it is, to see John Denver mentioned in the strip again. Poor Duke, he never did appreciate his musical neighbor. I am saddened to see that Mr. Denver is not mentioned in either Duke's or Zeke's biographies, nor are they listed on Mr. Denver's Wikipedia page. But again, it's good to see his name in the strip once more, and just in time for his tribute album! "It's a Colorado rocky mountain high/ I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky ..."

I thought last week's storyline was more about gently poking fun at Biden and Boehner (and those before them) when they have to sit behind the POTUS during the State of the Union speech. It is so distracting to watch them. Biden is such an enthusiastic Home Team Rooter, and Boehner seems to be thinking about not tipping his hand to the wrong people. He also looks generally like the doctor just told him he was going to be experiencing some "mild discomfort."

Today's strip is truly "living the dream!" Hopefully someday I will find my traction. Many thanks for making my day!

If Jeff wants more women to buy his book, then he needs to include vampires in it. Then again, no one cares about Afghanistan any more, so I doubt anyone will buy it even if he does.

Sorry, Zip, Jeff has a deeper problem getting women to relate to him. He is currently a metaphor for Reince Priebus's attempt to get the party of The War on Everybody and "legitimate rape" to look at itself. Eww!

Would somebody please tell me why, after all these decades in law and on the Hill, Joanie is taking real-time coaching, and from a child young enough to be her granddaughter? *facepalm*

I couldn't be in the background of a Senate hearing. I would be falling off my chair laughing. I do love C-SPAN.

Let's see. Ronald Reagan left office c. two weeks shy of his 78th b-day. Nancy Pelosi now nears 73. Last November, the twentysomething Reagan fan Luke Russert took it on himself to scold the House minority leader for "failing to make way for" a "younger" colleague. Enter Joanie -- now 74 or 75. Evidently, so long as nepotism, sexism, and George-Burns-knows-what trump feminism, the term "senior stateswoman" will remain as rare as hen's (make that rooster's) teeth. Till things change in the world at large, if Betty White could pop in to put Joanie's afflicters in their place, I'd be grateful.

As a new mom, I acutely feel Alex's pregnancy anxiety and jealousy, especially as her body contorts to carry twins. Bravo to her great relationship, and to Toggle's sweetness. I'm happy to see Alex continue to develop as a complex character, not always lovable, as none of us are.

I have a feeling that if Joanie confers with Senator Warren, Miss Ponytail may by looking for a new job.

As a 44-year-old male, if my wife told me she was going to appear on C-SPAN, the question "What are you going to wear?" would never enter my mind. Yet, somehow GBT gets me to empathize with Joanie and see things from her point of view. That's one definition of damn good writing.